Title 5 Changes on Establishment of Curriculum Committees

Fall
1996
Resolution Number
09.03
 
Contact
Assigned to
Curriculum Committee
Category
Curriculum
Status
Completed

Whereas a 1996 spring Executive Committee resolution asked the Senate Curriculum Committee to address potential conflicts between Title 5 Sections 55002 and 53200 on the establishment of college and district curriculum committees, and

Whereas the Senate Curriculum Committee felt changes could be made to Title 5 Section 55002(a)(1) which would clarify the conflicts between the two sections of Title 5;

Resolved that the Academic Senate recommend to the Board of Governors the following change (underlined below) to Title 5 Section 55002(a)(1).
Curriculum Committee. The college and/or district curriculum committee recommending the course shall be established by the Board of Trustees which shall consult collegially with the academic senate pursuant to Sections 53200-204 of this Article mutual agreement of the college and/or district administration and the academic senate. The committee shall be either a committee of the academic senate or a committee that is composed primarily of faculty, a faculty chair or co-chair and is otherwise comprised in a way that is determined by mutual agreement with or relying primarily on the academic senate pursuant to Sections 53200-204 of this Article mutually agreeable to the college and/or district administration and the academic senate.